Social emotional

Social-Emotional Domain
California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations (2009)
Teaching Strategies, CDA Training (1999)
Feeny, Christensen, Moravcik (2001) Who Am I in the Lives of Children

Social Domain
How children relate to others
How children make moral decisions

Emotional Domain
How children learn to trust
How children recognize and express their feelings
How children understand and accept who they are

Social Development
Helping children learn to get along with others
Helping children understand and express their feelings and respect those of others
Providing an environment and experiences that help children develop social skills

Influences
Increased knowledge about self and others
Influenced by
Experiences and relationships that child have with significant adults in their lives
Cognitive development

Cognition Effects Social Development
Move from being egocentric – seeing the world from one’s one perspective
Growing ability to understand how other people think and feel
Increased understanding of cause and effect – connections between actions and consequences
Change from concrete thinking to abstract thinking
Understanding complex concepts like multiple relationships (mother is wife, daughter, aunt)

Social Competence: Infants
Forges strong bonds with adults
Develops trust
Develops connection to secure attachment figure
Begins to orient to people in the environment
Becomes socially responsive
Participates in games like peek-a-boo
Becomes selective about who they response to
Sometimes responds to another’s distress

Social Competence: Toddlers
Concerned about the presence of principal attachment figure
Prefers to play along with the exclusive attention of favorite adults (solitary play)
Begins to enjoy nearby company of other children in play (parallel play)
Tries to do something for a distressed person – patting
Makes vocal exchanges in social play – turn-taking, social imitation, conflicts over toys
Begins to develop genuine friendship

Social Competence
The ability to initiate and maintain satisfying, reciprocal relationships with peers and adults.
Children who lack social competence are at risk
academic failure
dropping out of school
delinquency
mental health problems

Emotional Development
Develop as individuals who have:
Characteristic needs
Ways of expressing feelings
Perceptions of themselves
Develop a sense of
Identity
Self esteem
Impulse control
Capacity for autonomous responses
Influenced by experience

Milestones of Emotional Development: Infant
Signals need with crying and gazing
Establishes attachment to primary caregiver
Expresses a wide range of emotions through body movements and facial expressions
Cannot tolerate frustration or control impulses
Develops stranger anxiety between 6-9 months
Amiable from 1 year

Emotional Development: Toddlers
Vociferous and demanding at 2
Calmer and more sociable at 3
Begins to assert self strongly
Can seem stubbornly self-centered and resistant to change
Has little control of impulses
Easily frustrated

Social-Emotional Development Foundations
A child’s experience, expression, and management of emotions
The ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others
California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations, 2009

Social-Emotional Ability
The child is able to:
Identify and understand one’s own feelings
Accurately read and comprehend emotional states of others
Manage strong emotions and their expressions in a constructive manner
Regulate one’s own behavior
Develop empathy for others
Establish and maintain relationships

Responsive Caregiving
Supports infants in beginning to regulate emotions
Helps infants develop a sense of predictability, safety, and responsiveness
Form early relationships that are nurturing, stable, and consistent
“High quality relationships increase the likelihood of positive outcomes in young children” (p. 8)

Emotion and Cognition
Contributes ability to pay attention, make decisions, and focus on learning
Influence a young child’s ability to
persist in goal-oriented activity
Seek help when it is needed
Participate in and benefit from relationships

Social-Emotional Foundations
Interactions with Adults
The developing ability to respond to and engage with adults (See Examples: pp.14-15)
Relationships with Adults
The development of close relationships with certain adults who provide consistent nurturance (See Examples: pp.16-17)

Foundations
Interactions with Peers
The developing ability to respond to and engage with other children (See Examples: pp.18-19)
Relationships with Peers
The development of relationships with certain peers through interactions over time (p. 20)
Identity of Self in Relation to Others (pp. 21-22)
The developing concept that the child is an individual operating within social relationships

Foundations
Recognition of Ability
The developing understanding that the child can take action to influence the environment (See Examples: pp. 23-24)
Expression of Emotion(See Examples: pp. 25-26)
The developing ability to express a variety of feelings through facial expressions, movements, gestures, sounds, or words
Empathy
The developing ability to share in the emotional experiences of others (See Examples: pp. 27-28)

Foundations
Emotion Regulation
The developing ability to manage emotional responses, with assistance from others and independently. (See Examples: pp. 29-30)
Impulse Control
The developing capacity to wait for needs to be met, to inhibit potentially hurtful behavior, and to act according to social expectations, including safety rules. (See Examples: pp. 31-32)

Foundations
Social Understanding
The developing understanding of the responses, communication, emotional expressions, and actions of other people. (See Examples: pp. 33-34)

Resources
California Infant/Toddler Learning and Development Foundations (2009).
Feeny, Christensen, & Moravcik (2001). Who am I in the Lives of Children?
Teaching Strategies (1999). Caring for Infants and Toddlers
Bodrova& Leong, 2005, The Whole Child. Educational Leadership

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